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I see it as more a bunch of aspies fighting over technicalities. Unfortunately, the aspies in charge in this case and squashed a valuable use case. There are co
by lnanek2 13y ago
I see it as more a bunch of aspies fighting over technicalities. Unfortunately, the aspies in charge in this case and squashed a valuable use case. There are countless questions where the number of answers is unlimited. StackOverflow tends to be very useless for me since the questions they allow I can lookup quicker in the docs and the questions they don't are the ones that are super useful for me.
A typical allowed question is how to read the gyro on Android. Well that's well documented and useless to talk about further anyway. A typical question not allowed is the best way to make money in your app. This is very valuable to me since I've tried dozens of different ad networks. It took me a long time to figure out Google and AdMob pay terribly vs. all the others, etc.. Hell, even the question they cite as being frat house and not college is really useful to me since I could pickup new jargon, something not straight out of the docs.
Anyway, the site they made for this is here:
programmers.stackexchange.com
Although I still think it is a stupid distinction not to just allow it on the main site. The best content they have for experienced programmers who have passed the point where the main site is useful is shoved off into some ghetto. It is kind of like how you see lots of dead people on Hacker News who actually post interesting and useful stuff. HN bans people who are not outright spammers and trolls just for disagreeing, and it hurts the site.